10 Wrestling Gimmicks That Were NOTHING Like The Wrestlers Who Portrayed Them
2. The Miz
A tricky one this, in that The Miz used to be everything he still claims.
A quick through the 'Real World' episodes he featured in paints the picture of a loudmouthed (admittedly good-hearted) douchebag. Forcing his 'gimmick' on absolutely anybody in earshot, Miz was a picture of obnoxiousness wrapped in the shell of a too-youthful-for-his-own-good-superfan with an enormous ego.
The version he'd become on television wouldn't stray too far from it despite limp attempts from the company to first utilise him as a babyface 'host'. It morphed again when he returned from filming WWE movie projects as a deluded Hollywood fool.
Over the last year or so though, it's been utterly impossible to separate the man The Miz has become from the impudent imp that still sh*t-stirs on Raw and Smackdown Live!
A devoted husband and father and every bit the affable man the good-hearted boy was capable of becoming, it's virtually impossible to reconcile the real-life Mike Mizanin with his long-established alter-ego.
Its a credit to his work that many fans have requested another WWE Title run and/or babyface turn in his near future considering the abject failures of both. It highlights that his casting as an under-skilled gobsh*te simply doesn't register any more.